[Python-Dev] release23-maint branch CLOSED for release (was Re: 2.3.3 cycle) (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Thu Dec 4 09:51:46 EST 2003

Jeremy Fincher writes:

I thought the logging module was supposed to remain 1.5.2-compatible. At least, that's the reason I saw the last time someone wanted to remove those apply calls.

That sounds vaguely familiar. If we really want the copy distributed with Python to be compatible with Python's that old, we can use a different approach. Unfortunately, we can't simply add something like:

if sys.version_info >= (2, 3): def apply(func, args, kw=None): if kw is None: return func(*args) else: return func(*args, **kw)

This isn't permissible since it would cause a SyntaxError for Python 1.5.2; we'd have to enlist the "exec" statement to make this work.

Do we still really want to support Python 1.5.2? That just seems quite extreme to me; even PyXML is no longer maintained for Python 1.5.2.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

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